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"Actually rival parties have no habit of working. One of our parliamentary secretaries makes rounds of schools daily - he is not given any money, cars anything - and he reports to Sisodia. Other goes to hospitals," Kejriwal said.

"We have given responsibilities to other MLAs. We had to name them parliamentary secretaries then to give authenticity to their work.

"Otherwise even schools would question their legitimacy outside their respective constituencies. We have spoken to top lawyers and all of them said that this is not an office of profit," said Kejriwal.

Responding to criticism against his government over spending on advertisement, Kejriwal said ads are being given in newspapers outside the capital also as people want to know what is happening in Delhi.

"We spent Rs 75 crore not Rs 526 crore. RSS is an expert in spreading rumours. They have no parallel in the world in spreading rumours. We have centralised ads. And why are we giving ads outside Delhi? Because Delhi is the capital of the country and people from all the states stay here.

"Everyone would want to know whats happening here. Its important that people know that good work is happening in Delhi for attracting investments.

"For example in the event management industry, NOCs from 27 departments were required. We cancelled many NOCs and made the rest online.

"This people should know if they want to organise event here. If things are improving, then people from India and across the world should know," he said.

On the the Talk to AK programme, he said it was to make him available for public scrutiny.

"When you are in public life you have to be ready for public scrutiny. At times we feel that medias questions and peoples questions are different.

"There was a need for a platform to take questions directly.

"And you can face the public only when you are ethical and honest," said the Delhi Chief Minister. PTI SBR MPB RT

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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